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Show James J. Lowe Files Claims For Water Rights Near Summit Springs James L. Lowe of Castle Cliff, Washington county, this week filed two applications to appropriate appro-priate water, which he hopes to be able to develop in the vicinity of Summit Springs near the Arizona Ari-zona state line on highway 91. The water of the spring proper has been involved in litigation for a number of years. Only recently the supreme court awarded 38 of the water to the state road commission on an application to ue it for public consumption on the highway. Three eights of the water was awarded to Mr. Lowe and 28 to other stockmen in the vicinity. Mr. Lowe first filed for water in the area in 1928. Since that time litigation has been pending, therefore the old application was never acted upon by the state engineer. The new application asks for .06 second foot of water from Lowe springs and .015 second foot of water from an underground source nearby. The second application seeks permission to drill a fifty foot tunnel to the source. Water from both sources would be piped to the Lowe ranch to supplement the present supply there, according accord-ing to the applications. An investigation will be made by the state engineer as to sources of the adjudicated water of Summit Sum-mit springs and sources named in I the new applications, to determine if the water applied for is avail-I avail-I able. |